Springwise: Located directly on the banks of the river Spree, the Nhow Berlin bills itself as the only hotel in Europe offering two professional music studios. A dedicated music manager is on staff, as is a team drawing heavily from local music colleges. Regular live events and concerts take place in the hotel’s event spaces and terraces, while first-rate DJs are on hand in the bar. The music studios are operated in collaboration with Lautstark Music GmbH/René Rennefeld, which also manage the legendary Berlin Hansa recording studios. The Nhow’s 304 rooms, meanwhile, are kitted out with iPod connections and more than 30 TV and 100 music radio stations integrated in a state-of-the-art entertainment system. Wireless Int... Read more »

CNET: Remember those X-ray glasses advertised in the back of comic books? Imagine a handheld camera that can reveal the unseen, inner structures of everything from concrete bridges to body parts.

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology under engineering professor Reza Zoughi have developed a patented device that can show the inner structures of objects in real time by using millimeter and microwave signals.

Potential applications include the detection of cancerous skin cells, termite damage to buildings, or concealed weapons at secure zones like airports.

Inhabitat: While it may seem like tattoos are the norm now, no one has ink like this. A team from the University of Illinois led by John Rogers has devised a method to actually install LED lights under the skin. The research, published today in Nature Materials, saw the team develop flexible arrays 2.5 ?m thick and 100 x 100 ?m square which are currently smaller than any commercially available array.

In their research, the team printed circuits "directly onto a rigid glass substrate and then transferred them to an inexpensive biocompatible polymer called poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) to create a mesh-like array of LEDs and photodetectors.”

In short, the univer... Read more »

One of the more successful bike sharing services was launched in Paris in 2007 by the company Vélib’. Now a similar service is coming to New York City with a mobile technology twist.

SoBi allows users to interact with the service through their mobile phones. One can find nearby bicycles tracked by GPS, then unlock those available bikes using a mobile app.

Instead of the pre-built and deployed docking stations employed by other services, SoBi bikes will have a "lock box” attached to the rear wheel of the bike which can be used to lock the bike to typical bike racks. The lock box also has a fair amount of technology built in: it connects the bike to a c... Read more »

Softpedia:  A team of particle physicists announces the creation of a refrigerator, in a quantum system made up of three individual qubits, or quantum bits.

These are the basic components of such a system, and they all respect the entanglement principle. This basically states that any change affecting one of the qubits will affect the other two immediately.

The researchers who designed and created this particular innovation say that they used nothing more than the basic principles of thermodynamics for the job, adding only a little twist at the end.

The basic operating principle in the quantum refrigerator is fairly ... Read more »

MLB.com: Everyone seems to be talking about these new toasters at the MLB.com Shop. They are hot. They toast your bread, your English Muffin, your frozen waffle – and the best part is that it produces your favorite Major League Baseball team’s logo on one side.

"You don’t have to be a fan to love this,” said Josh Fink, CEO of Pangea Brands, but since we are all fans here and we eat, sleep and breathe baseball, we had to know more about the latest rage. So we bought one of our own, tried it out at home, and found it to be a little too … fun. We made more toast than we really had appetite to eat, because, frankly, we were just having a great time... Read more »

FaceChipz.com has all the features of a real social network – but with one big difference: kids can only communicate with others they’ve physically exchanged FaceChipz tokens with – no strangers allowed! No one can arbitrarily contact them. No one can search for them. It’s the social network they collect, but doesn’t collect them.
The Chips have the weight, look and feel of a high-end casino chips — on the head-side is …a face — an emoticon. On the tail side is a code. They are totally collectable — think Pogs meets Webkinz. The initial collection has 200 and they just went on sale at ToysRus.
The way it works is: kids register each FaceChipz token online by entering the unique code on the back of the chip into the FaceChipz code reader. Once the FaceChipz are registered,... Read more »

The Walkstation is the fully integrated combination of an electric height-adjustable worksurface with an exclusively engineered, low speed commercial grade treadmill. And it’s the first product in the entirely new FitWork category of products from Details designed to bring healthy habits to sedentary workers while they are actually working.
The fully-functional treadmill display console shows speed, calories burned, time and distance. High torque motor is built in to withstand the rigors of slow speeds and possible higher weights for long periods of time. While exercising, the Height-AdjusTable Worksurface allows you to carry on your work comfortably.
UPDATE:
Steelcase Store is giving away three Walkstation treadmill desks (retail value of $4699). To enter, ind... Read more »

The Cool Hunter: Learning to ride a bike is one of the most valuable skills a child can learn, helping them master the art of balance, a skill crucial to so many other physical activities and sports. UK based Kiddimoto has created a range of cute-looking wooden bikes which are designed to teach young children precisely that – balance. The slimline, lightweight birch plywood bikes are easy steer and manoeuvre and feature proper rubber tyres, providing a smooth ride for little bottoms by gliding across outdoor surfaces.

Cool Tools: Green Toys’ Indoor Gardening Kit all made their way into our home as gifts and then won us over across generational lines. They’re constructed of recycled milk cartons (high-density polyethylene), have a clean, attractive, colorful-but-not-garish aesthetic and are just shy of bulletproof.
The gardening kit’s a pleasure because it requires parental involvement (for the recently post-toddler set, at least), and patience from grownups and kids, alike: Plant a seed and watch it grow is a long-term activity, after all. The kit comes with three seed options – basil, sunflower and zinnias — if you don’t already have a supply on hand. Your child gets to choose what she wants to plant and take some ownership in the process.

A wedding is a special but stressful event. When the couple come from two different cultures, it’s challenging to incorporate both sets of traditions. A growing number of wedding planners are helping out.

Berkeley, CA-based ZahZoom Weddings helped Rachel Carroll, of Jewish faith, and Trinidadian Michelle Matt in their cross-cultural nuptials. The couple walked down the aisle to Caribbean steel drums and were read the Torah by a rabbi under a chuppah, or wedding canopy. Chinese American Ada Chen and Sachin Rekhi, who is Indian American, had Oakland-based wedding planner Marilyn Ambra assist in blending the styles and traditions of both cultures.

As more people from different ... Read more »

Beyond Robson: Vancouver has a new connoisseur – the craft beer drinker.

They arrive at parties with bottles of beer you have never heard of, stouts, ales and lagers with names like Dogfish Head, Anchor Steam and Polygamy Porter, cases brought back from a trip to the States and recycled glass jugs they get refilled by their friends who work for local watering holes and breweries. They have beer memberships, wear beer pins and forgo music festivals for ones about beer.

You can’t blame them though. With specialty beer stores popping up all over and existing stores expanding their craft beer selection, it is actually becoming more difficult to ... Read more »

Cnet News: URL-shortening services are abundant and becoming more so. They’re usually designed with a priority on minimum character length, not easy reading: Is.gd, Bit.ly, Twurl.nl, Tr.im, Sn.im”, Cligs, and TinyURL.
So what’s new now? First, Twitter, and second, shortening URLs is becoming an actual business–notably at present through the addition of "analytics” features that can let those who use the service see data about how many people clicked on links, when, where they’re located, and the Web page where they found the shortened link.
One of the problems with short URLs is knowing what you’re getting into when you click them. Is that link really the fun video of the guy tripping into the lake, or is it site that will spam you or attempt to install malware? Is it r... Read more »

FT.com: In recent years, some forward-thinking chefs, who believe that personal expression and creativity are more important than slavish devotion to symbolic luxury goods, have abandoned the antiquated approach of haute cuisine, a style of cooking traditionally based on a few select ingredients.
These forward-thinking chefs are seeking out the highest-quality ingredients, usually from their area, without regard to their place in the traditional fine dining canon. Combined with a deeply held belief in the transformative power of the cooking process, they are setting an example that, if it catches on, could change what we grow and eat, both in restaurants and at home.
Revaluing ingredients – starting with the assumption that a potato or a carrot can taste as exciting as foie gras – i... Read more »

CScout: Housing company Tostem has developed a new kind of ecological residence that takes in more carbon emissions than it produces itself. The Super-sustainable Model House Next+ Nagaiki Style is set for commercialization in 2011 and features a photovoltaic system, a solar heat pump for water heating, and LED and OLED lighting. In particular, new technology for the home includes a timer to charge up an electric vehicle at night and a fractal sunshade, which is used on the terrace, though some details have not been announced.

Yoxi (YO-see) is a creative competition and a social game. Teams of problem solvers battle to deliver the best solutions to social issues. You vote, comment, pledge and play along online. The winning team gets the funding opportunities and positioning to make their idea a reality. The more stuff you do, the more your voice is heard. That way, you play to support great ideas brought to the real world.

Triple Pundit: By 2011, KFC claims that the company will reduce the use of foam by over 60% and total plastic use by 17%. Part of the push will be an introduction of reusable packaging. Currently 60% of its restaurants serve some of its sides in colorful plastic containers—all restaurants will feature them by next year. The company hopes that customers will reuse, and eventually, recycle, the containers. KFC touts other benefits as well, such as reduced shipping cubes, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, and less energy required to manufacture these spry containers. The finger licking good paper and cardboard based packaging materials will include more recycled and postconsumer content, too.

Reveries.com: Paulita Flores says her wedding site was beautiful once she got past the caskets, urns and cemetery views, reports Melanie D. Hayes in the Indianapolis Star (1/19/11). "At first, when I pulled up and saw it was a funeral home, it did concern me,” Paulita admits. "But when we walked in and saw everything, it was overwhelming. I fell in love and thought it was the perfect place. It was breathtaking, so it didn’t cross my mind again.” After all, the venue features "an elegant rotunda with marble floors amid glimmering chandeliers and a bubbling fountain.”

So, Paulita went ahead and planned her wedding to take place at the Community Life Center in Indianapolis, which "holds a d... Read more »

Swissmiss: The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate, and enhance the world’s visual language. The goal is to collect and organize all the symbols that form our language into one easy-to-use online library that can be accessed by anyone. All the symbols on their site are completely free to download, and can be used for design projects, architecture presentations, art pieces – just about anything. The folks behind The Noun Project think a visual language that can be understood by all cultures and people is a pretty amazing thing. I fully agree.

Springwise: It seems safe to say that most of us have experienced at one time or another the unpleasantness of having a song "stuck” in our heads, repeating over and over again long past its welcome. It’s a predicament for which there’s historically been little cure other than time; fortunately, more expedient help has finally arrived in the form of Unhearit.

A new venture from Washington-based startup Liftoff Media, Unhearit uses what it likes to call "the latest in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology” to help afflicted consumers get stubborn songs out of their heads. Specifically, those currently suffering from the ailment — known as earworm — can visit the sit... Read more »

Springwise: In what has become a vast sea of online yoga offerings, it takes something special to make a particular site stand out. For YogaVibes, that something is the inclusion of real fellow students, as we noted last year. For YogaTailor, on the other hand, it’s a feature that customizes the site’s online yoga classes to fit the viewer’s expertise and available time.

Aiming to make its online yoga classes more widely accessible than most, YogaTailor begins by asking the student how much time they have available that day as well as their level of experience and whether they are pregnant or have back pain. Once that information has been gathered, the s... Read more »

SFGate: LivingSocial heralded a new era last month when it offered a $10,000 coupon for a penthouse-suite package at the Fairmont hotel: Daily-deal sites are going upscale.

After getting started on small-ticket items – cupcakes, manicures and yoga sessions – LivingSocial and its larger rival Groupon Inc. are pursuing buyers willing to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on travel and luxury goods.

Gizmodiva: Angry Birds in no doubt a sensation and it is no surprise that they were making a big splash at the Toy Fair this year. One of their most fun items was the cool Angry Birds rubber playground balls. They look so much fun and almost as awesome as the game. I cannot wait to buy them and bounce them off walls. There are many different birds and sizes to pick from. Kids and adults who are fans of the game are certain to buy these as collectible play things. Unfortunately, there is no word on the price or release date

Missy Flowers is a new visual shopping search engine that helps convenience-seeking shoppers find that perfect flower delivery gift, without having to shift through multiple websites to compare products and prices. Shoppers can search over 3,000 flowers, plants and gift baskets by the leading American flower delivery websites, such as 1-800-Flowers and FTD.

Missy Flowers makes the task of shifting through thousands of products much easier allowing users to refine searches by occasion, type of flower, plant, gourmet gift, color, price and merchant. Flowers are beautifully presented with large, full-color thumbnails. Hover over the thumbnails to view a larger clearer sample of the product.... Read more »

Business Journal: Add Minnesota Vikings merchandise to the list of items now sold in vending machines. The Eden Prairie-based football team and Indianapolis-based merchandise monger MainGate Inc. installed a Vikings vending machine at the Mall of America Thursday, the companies said in a press release.

It’s the first NFL-branded vending machine, and a test run to evaluate automated sales of T-shirts and other purple-and-gold paraphernalia.

Uber-Review: When it comes to pets, dogs are sooooo much better than cats in all ways but one: they don’t really care where they take a crap. You take them for a walk and they will go out of their way to drop a fresh, juicy turd at their earliest convenience. If you are civically minded, that means pulling out a plastic bag and trying to scoop up the poop without touching it (not as hard as it sounds, trust me) – or you could leave it there and risk fines and scorn… or you could spend $100 and carry around a ridiculous looking dog dung vacuum from Hammacher Schlemmer.

The Dog Dung vacuum features a battery-powered 30,000-RPM motor that can get 50 suctions out of a single 12-hour charge.

Gizmodiva: Who said black tie affairs are not for dogs? Your dogs can dress extremely sophisticated and formal too. You might not own a tie, but you can certainly buy one for your dog and send it to a classy dinner party. Or when you are headed of to a black tie event, there’s no reason why your dog won’t accompany you! This velcro collar and tie turns your mutt into a yuppie or refined canine gentleman. The collars and ties are available in many colors and patterns. Your dog will happily go with you to a fancy restaurant now!

Now its no longer true that Singaporeans live in high rise flats built by HDB in Singapore. You can build one for your pet fishes too! Anytime anywhere!

Stack these cube shaped fish bowls on top of one another to create a modern high-rise for your fish collection. Perfect for aggressive fish like bettas, or other aquarium lone rangers.

Through our new company LiveWell Pet Products we launched the PawsOFF Protective Bed Cover, which is a cover that goes overtop your pillows and comforter to protect it from your pet’s fur, odor, germs, slobber and stains. You can visit PawsOFF to view our commercial and see the product in action. The PawsOFF Protective Bed Cover is the last thing to go on your bed in the morning. The fitted corners give the cover a snug fit and the four elastic garters ensures the cover stays on the bed no-matter how much digging, bitting and pulling pet’s dish out. The high grade multi-fiber fleece material makes the cover strong and durable to withstand digging and clawing. It is the perfect solution for saving your beautiful bedding from pets or t... Read more »

CNNMoney: In its first-ever toy created for the canine community, Mattel is introducing a product called "Puppy Tweets” that meshes the hugely popular Twitter with consumers’ love of pets.

Puppy Tweets is a plastic tag with a sound and motion sensor that you attach to your pet’s dog collar and connect its USB receiver to your computer. Then you create a Twitter account for your dog and enjoy updates all day from Sparky or whatever its name is on your computer or smartphone.

The tag is set with several pre-recorded tweets that are triggered by the dog’s activities. So if he’s running around, you... Read more »

Halifax Courier UK: Natural skin treatments have been launched by a company passionate about animals and its eco-friendly approach.
Mags and Graham Roxburgh, who care for a host of animals in Holywell Green, poured months of hard work into researching and creating a mix of natural products to create what they say is a non-chemical based cure for horses infected with "sweet itch”.
The tests by the couple’s company, Stable Environment Ltd, have led to the launch of the Ultimate Two-in-One Fly Repellent and Skin Tonic.
Managing Director Mrs Roxburgh had already learned how essential oils could heal and prevent skin disorders in both humans and animals as a trichologist of 15 years. And it was these techniques, as well as those picked up as a qualified aroma... Read more »

CoolHunting: The Sleepypod is a new pet carrier that creates a more enjoyable and safe experience for your pet when on the road. A great alternative to the pet-in-your-purse method, it also doubles as a bed by removing the top.
Currently there are no safety standards for pets, making the Sleepypod, built to withstand a 24 mph impact while strapped in with a seatbelt, the first of its kind. And while it may not be ideal for people who use public transportation or walk, it’s perfect for longer-distance hauls, whether stowed under an airplane seat or strapped into cars

CoolTools: TeamSnap is an amazing tool for organizing a sports team, club, or other function where you have to coordinate groups of people. There’s a free version that’s got a lot of features, but even more are available on the deluxe version which is about $75 per year. We’ve been using it for about 4 years for different sports (soccer and baseball) for my two boys.

It enables me to manage my teams with ease, both remotely when we’re traveling through a smart phone, as well as using my desktop computer. It’s easier to use than competitor sites that I’ve seen and makes it very easy to coordinate your group of people. Even users that aren’t very computer savvy have been able to ... Read more »

Breaking up is hard to do. Avoiding an ex whose name keeps popping up all over the Internet is harder. Customized plug-in Ex-blocker looks to eradicate the heartache by providing a highly personalized Web-browsing filter. To get rid of an ex (virtually, of course), add their first and last name, Twitter username, Facebook and blog URLs and — voila! — bad boyfriend is erased from Web surfing search results and social media streams!

Ex-blocker isn’t limited to avoiding ghosts of girlfriends past. Just about anyone can be blocked. Sick of reading about Lindsay Lohan’s train-wreck life? Just add LiLo’s name and info to Ex-blocker. Users can add up to five exes (or other individuals) to their online "do-not-display” list.

Twournal is a new service that creates a different kind of twitter book, it allow users to create, buy and sell printed Twitter journals created from their tweets. Twournal has:

1. Full pages of your tweets
2. Can include Twitpic/Tweetphoto/Yfrog pictures in color or black and white
3. Can include replies
4. Can create a custom cover
5. Tweets are in chronological order
6. Can add a dedication message to appear after the title
7. Select which tweets to start and end at

Twournal offers free shipping in the US for your new twitter books.

Raffle Dog is a website that offers free online prizes sponsored by companies. Its main goal is to give users a free prize without any strings attached and to recreate the sense of excitement similar to the raffles in the old days (or the 80’s). Raffle Dog is currently offering different raffles every week for local and national companies. The winner of each raffle is picked live online from a fishbowl filled with raffle tickets. Raffle prizes are then mailed out directly to the raffle winners.

New York Times: Sun Alert Lite has three dials with icons on them, one dial for skin type, one for the S.P.F. of your sunscreen, and one for weather conditions. The skin type dial provides adequate explanation of pigmentation, such as "Light brown skin, no freckles, good tanning ability,” to accurately pick your type. S.P.F. is self-explanatory, but the environment dial may require some thought.

For instance, at my downtown pool, where the chairs are on a grass lawn, do I choose "sunny urban” or "park open field?” When the dials are set, the app tells you how much time you can stay outside. Start the timer and it wi... Read more »

NPR: As the computing power of cell phones increases, more and more sophisticated mobile apps are being developed for the mental health field. They’re seen as a way to bridge periodic therapy sessions — a sort of 24-7 mobile therapist that can help with everything from quitting smoking to treating anxiety to detecting relapses in psychotic disorders.

These mobile technologies let users track their moods and experiences, providing a supplemental tool for psychiatrists and psychologists

TrendCentral: Available for just 99 cents from iTunes, Laan Labs’ Sonar Ruler may be the answer to our laser measuring dreams. The app emits sound waves, from the iPhone’s speaker, which then bounce off wherever you point it back to the phone, finally offering a measurement which can be set in feet, inches, or meters.

Should you download it, you may find yourself buying new furniture every time you hit a flea market after discovering that, yes, that chair is small enough to fit in your guest bathroom.

Chip Chick: Kodak is a company looking towards the future of picture sharing. Introducing a new line of products that focuses on accessing and sharing photos through social networks and e-mail, Kodak products are moving away from the old way of sharing pictures and videos and into a new realm.

The new booths feature improved sharing features and easier, better photo retouching. In the past, you had to bring your camera’s SD card to the kiosk in order to print out copies. With the new kiosks, you can even access your photos stored online using Kodak Gallery, Facebook, or Picasa Web Albums.

Aside from making it easy to access your photos, the picture booths also make it easy... Read more »

SignOnSanDiego.com: A small La Jolla company thinks it has a technology that could represent the future of scientific publishing.
The company, MolSoft, recently launched a platform it calls ActiveICM that enables authors to include three-dimensional, interactive graphics with the text of their articles. That means readers can click at the appropriate point in an article, call up an exhibit and view it from any angle.
The interface is straightforward, with an article’s text on one side of the screen and whatever exhibit the reader has chosen to look at on the other. Authors can include Internet-like links in the text as frequently as they want to direct readers to the exhibits.
"It’s not just animation,” Abagyan said. "It’s a fully interactive environment, whic... Read more »

This is a project that sets a new standard of life on water. The innovative concept has overturned the concept of a traditional home and puts living in the classical sense up for discussion, presenting a new dynamic and contemporary vision. It creates a completely new lifestyle and offers people to live wherever they want and in which way they want.

This is a modular concept that combines the dynamics and elegance of a boat with a refined living area on at least two levels. It is made up of various interchangeable modules which can be fitted and connected to each other in many different ways. Within limits the craft can be designed in full by the customer (length, height, interior design and the number and sizes of the ... Read more »

Luxist: The wallet has traditionally been a low-tech device but not anymore as biometrics is changing the way we carry money. Dunhill has come out with their own version of the Biometric Wallet that promises to keep your money, id, and credit cards safe from thieves even if they pick your pocket. A carbon fiber exterior keeps things light but unbreakable while a biometric finger-print lock keeps the contents under wraps to all but the owner. And for even more high-tech protection you can connect the wallet to your cell phone via Bluetooth and get an alert if the wallet finds itself too far for comfort (i.e. you’ve been robbed or dropped it somewhere).

Born Rich: Turn your childhood fascination with the phenomenon of the black hole into reality with designer Jon Gilmore’s Nova Black Hole Illuminated Coffee Table. The futuristic table features a center section with rows of white LED lights that look like a black hole sucking up light rays. The glass tabletop highlights the black hole while ensuring it doesn’t suck up your coffee cups, and make it perfect for your living room. The base of the table is made from aluminum in a shiny silver finish and shaped a bit like an alien spaceship. The illuminated coffee table sells for approx. $1,070.

Bornrich: Luxury air travel has suffered a crisis in the economic downturn, but the business-class passengers are still flying on cloud nine. The luxury airlines too are doing everything to make it even better for their first-class passengers. Singapore Airlines, well-known for its first class cabin with the largest seats in the sky, has now introduced a deluxe cabin, known as the "Singapore Suite.” The cabin is more lavish, and more exclusive, than first class on all Singapore Airline A380 aircraft, the world’s largest passenger plane. The suites feature a standalone bed; not one converted from a seat, a lavish armchair hand-stitched by master Italian craftsmen Polt... Read more »

Born Rich: As the luxury travel takes on to woo the elite travelers, British Airways has also introduced their new first class cabin being installed on a B777, which flies from London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare. The new cabin features a personal wardrobe, a 60 percent wider bed at the shoulders, leather-bound writing table, a 15-inch in-flight entertainment screen, USB port, RCA jack, noise-canceling headsets and personal electronic blinds along with mood lighting. To reach these in-flight luxuries for effortless travel, the design of the cabin is inspired by premium brands like Aston Martin and Jaguar. So, do you still believe that traveling is a dreary experience?

WindowAlert is a static-cling or low-tack decal that may be applied to home and office windows. The decals contain a component which brilliantly reflects ultraviolet sunlight. This ultraviolet light is invisible to humans, but glows like a stoplight for birds. Birds have vision that is up to 12 times better than that of humans. WindowAlert decals help birds see windows and avoid striking the glass.

BornRich: Wall and floor tiles are of substantial importance when it comes to decorating your bathroom. Make every inch of your bathroom space scream opulence with these inviting, colorful crocodile skin tiles by Italian company Petracer. Part of the firm’s Savana collection, these tiles flaunt a textured crocodile skin pattern. The Savana collection tiles evoke the mythical beauty of the wilderness, power of the land and sun in the wilderness.

Under Water Magic is a newly developed extremely strong one component adhesive and sealant, which is designed  for a wide variety of tasks in indoor and outdoor swimming pools enabling you to fix leaking swimming pools under water.  And many building and DIY uses which require work done in wet or damp conditions. Any place you need to glue or stick something from underwater to in the rain Underwater Magic is the one stop solution.  Stick, tile, metal to concrete, plastic to concrete, metal to metal nearly everything to anything, if your... Read more »

Luxe Home Swap represents a new era in home exchange as an option for accommodation when traveling. While the premise of home exchange has been around for decades, Luxe Home Swap is the first to create a dynamic website that offers a boutique spin on home swapping for savvy consumers who own homes around the world that they are proud of. The site provides quality accommodations and simultaneously considers the importance of the many aspects that make for choice properties. This can include real estate that is large and luxurious, or small and stylish places that are valued for their location and convenience.

Strange New Products: True Clean Towel solves that old problem of "which end of the towel did I dry my ass with?”

When you step out of the shower, and reach for that towel to dry yourself off, you don’t often remember which end of the towel you used yesterday to dry your butt with. So you just end up drying off your face with something that you might consider unsanitary.

It basically allows you to reuse your towels for several days, while saving money and water on laundry, but with the peace of mind knowing which end you can use for "up there” and "down there”.